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- Sphinn It!
Posted By: yeepage 470 Days ago
Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Category: Vertical Search
8 Comments
8 Comments












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Poor Microhoo .. ..
Its the end of the world as we know it...and I dont feeeeel fineeeeee
#13http://sphinn.com/story/23951
google simply has way too much power right now and whats worse (brilliant?) is how theyve indocrinated the public with the "do no evil" mantra. last time i checked, google remained a for-profit public comany whose board of directors and institutional share holders care more about share price than anything else.
Given that their share price has plummetted to almost half of what it was at the peak, Im sure its the financial market that has the biggest influence on Google at the moment. Theyll get back to normal programming (Do No Evil), when the share price is back up there again.
Not addressed directly (either by Attributor or SEJ):* not all ads are delivered by ad servers - of course those numbers would be difficult to track.* many ad networks have and are opting out of ad servered wares - those numbers are also hard to track.Or, Google may have 69% of the online ad server market but not of the online ad market. From the studys conclusions:* Content is proliferating all over the place - Attributor finds an average of 20 different copies for each article we track.* There is a lot of money at stake. 64% of the copies have ads on their pages and most republishing is on sites with > 1MM monthly unique users.* It’s an SEO goldmine. 57% of the copies we find do not link back to the original sites.Or, scraping is profitable. And widespread.
(disclosure in that I work for attributor)Your ad server point is dead-on. This is a directional read of GoogleClicks dominance, and probalbly the only measurable one unless you want to go the panel route which has its own holes.Youre right on scraping although based on current customers, full-blown scraping is the minority whereas most re-use is between 40-60% of the original. In theory, this group wil be open to adding links in return for the partial copying - this is what publishers are betting on and why they are signing up as customers.
Dammit, now we need a Report Spam on the comments... proof yet again, btw, that nofollow is NOT a deterrent.